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Book Review: It Starts with a Fish by Emily Kemme

About the Book

After ten years of blogging, Emily Kemme began to notice a change in her posts. Voicing her individuality had evolved from what some people labeled a troublesome personality trait into self-assurance, which she now applies daily to a variety of situations. Whether it’s managing wayward collies, home remodeling, cooking dinner, or raising young adults with a strong sense of who they are and where their life path could take them, this book offers humor, solace, and solid advice.

My Review

Parenting is hard. So is writing. Yet somehow, Emily Kemme manages to do both – and with aplomb. I was not familiar with her writing prior to being asked to review her latest book, but eagerly signed on to read it once I learned a little more about her and her work. This is a series of fun (and funny – but more in the heart-warming vein than the snarky one that seems to encapsulate my own parenting stories) essays about the trials, tribulations, and immense rewards of running a household, raising children, being married/partnered, and attempting to maintain sanity (and grace) through it all. The pieces are very short and easy to read. Her writing style is conversational. Reading the book is like sitting with a friend, delightfully sharing the highs and equally delightfully commiserating over the lows of daily life as a parent. It’s great fun and a quick read – and a fabulous distraction from your own life for a while…

Thanks to the author and publisher for my obligation-free review copy.

About the Author

As the award-winning author for my novels, Drinking the Knock Water: A New Age Pilgrimage and In Search of Sushi Tora, and on my blog, Feeding the Famished, I look at the world in all its rawness. I write about human nature, illuminating the everyday in a way that highlights its brilliance.

As a novelist, journalist and blogger, I write what I like to think of as “people studies.” As a food writer — a topic seemingly narrow, in essence limited to what’s on your plate, in your kitchen, and in your grocery basket — what is covered is not that simple.

For some, writing about restaurants and food may seem a fleeting enterprise. It’s just food on a plate. What does it taste like? It tastes like food.

But observing and writing about what appears on a plate can transport readers into many philosophical conversations about science, about art, about how we think as humans, about the world itself.

In that sense, food writing is like novel writing. Both are stories about people.

Emily is a regular Contributor for the Greeley Tribune, NOCO Style Magazine and The NoCo Optimist and writes features and food stories.

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